Posted October 2026

By Randy Patterson

Most of you know me for conversations with the people who make the music we love. This interview introduces you to someone who has been part of my life for almost half a century: my dear friend, Dr. Roderick Logan.

Roderick and I have known each other for 49 years. We first met at a church camp meeting and soon became roommates at a small Bible college in Fresno, California. There were plenty of laughs, plenty of music, and more than a few all-night conversations over coffee about what we hoped to do with our lives.

Neither of us could have pictured this particular conversation back then. Yet here we are, on opposite sides of the country, talking about subjects that reach into the lives of many of us in the Boomerocity audience.

Roderick has also been there for me during some of my darkest times. I have benefited from his counsel, including things I needed to hear even when I didn’t particularly want to hear them. That history is part of why I wanted you to meet him.

Our conversation centers on three of his books: I Was Loved, Finding Everland, and The Coherent Rhythm of Care. Their subjects will sound familiar to anyone raising a family, working through a painful religious experience, or trying to care for someone else while running low on energy themselves.

What Our Children Will Remember

I Was Loved: 10 Statements I Hope My Child Can Say About Their Childhood asks parents to imagine their children as adults, looking back twenty years from now. What do we hope they will remember about growing up with us?

Roderick talks about the experience of being welcomed, protected, enjoyed, and supported. He also talks about Click Above To Orderrepair after conflict. Providing for a child matters, but the conversation asks us to pay attention to the atmosphere we create through our tone, our availability, and the way we respond when something goes wrong.

“It’s remembering love as an atmosphere,” he says.

That question has plenty of relevance for grandparents. Some offer an occasional afternoon or overnight visit. Others have stepped into the daily responsibilities of parenting again. Roderick recognizes both the opportunity to offer a patient presence and the strain that an unexpected caregiving role can bring.

He describes the grandparent’s opportunity as “a chance to bless them without trying to possess them.” That is a useful thought to carry into the next visit with the grandchildren.

Finding a Voice After Religious Harm

Our shared religious background makes the discussion of Finding Everland: When Religion Wounds: A Psalm Journey to Healing and Wholeness especially personal.

Roderick describes growing up in an itinerant evangelist’s family, moving from place to place, and later seeing religious institutions from the inside. He recalls turning down an offer to write a tell-all book decades ago. The Click Above To Orderbook he eventually wrote concentrates on the people living with the effects of religious harm and their efforts to rebuild trust and recover their voice.

Using the first 41 Psalms as its framework, Finding Everland offers chapters organized around things a person may feel they have lost, including laughter, family, relief, and joy. Roderick explains that readers can approach the chapters according to what they are carrying rather than feeling obliged to move through every page in order.

We talk about the difference between someone’s intentions and the impact of what happened. We also discuss the pressures a religious system can place on people who ask questions or no longer fit its expectations.

Roderick returns to dignity, choice, and the room to tell the truth. “Healthy faith protects dignity,” he says. That short statement gives listeners a clear point to consider during a much larger conversation.

The Person Giving Care Needs Care Too

The third book, The Coherent Rhythm of Care: Wellness and Wholeness for Those Who Serve Others, addresses a situation many of us know well: someone needs our help, we want to give it, and we are getting tired.

That person may be a parent, a spouse, a child, or someone we serve through our work. Sometimes several Click Above To Orderpeople need us at once. I ask Roderick about the caregiver who has little relief and cannot simply step away from the responsibility.

He acknowledges that there is no single answer for every situation. His starting points are clarity, capacity, and calling: naming what is happening and its impact; looking honestly at resources, support, and limits; and identifying the values that guide the care we give.

Roderick uses highway guardrails to explain boundaries. They help a person find a safer way through a difficult stretch. In the same way, he argues, caregivers need limits that allow them to keep showing up without disappearing into the work.

“The only way a person can continue saying yes is because they found some places to say no,” he says.
We cover a lot in this conversation, and there is still plenty I would like to explore with him. If one of these subjects speaks to your life, I hope you will spend some time with us. If it brings someone else to mind, please share the interview with them.

Watch my first Boomerocity interview with Dr. Roderick Logan on this page. You can explore his books at Roderickericklogan.com/my-books and learn more about his work at Roderickericklogan.com.

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